Blog Post

News and events
1 MIN READ

Stats

Afraser's avatar
Afraser
Member
6 years ago
In the news today:
The number of Australian woman being diagnosed with breast cancer increases to 1 in 7; eight women die each day due to the cancer.

it may be earlier diagnosis, evidence of pre cancerous cells and/or more screening, and the latter is good, but it’s still a daunting statistic. 
Published 6 years ago
Version 1.0

2 Comments

  • It's just everywhere.  A work collegue of mine was diagnosed a week ago and today another one's sister just diagnosed!  Maybe I should go work somewhere else :neutral:
  • I'm not surprised, the 1 in 8 figure has been around for a long time.
Related Content
Sorry to hear. I found it a difficult decision, but I did go ahead in the end and went with the stats from my DCISionRT test. The test showed a meaningful drop in risk. Mine was also the left side. 
22 minutes ago
Mum’s oncologist had a link to a tool inputting many factors of her particular cancer type, receptors etc to give 10yr stats depending on what treatments were done in part or all. The only issue is th...
3 years ago
@koalalala that's really odd that they only suggest the Oncotype DX rather than EndoPredict. When deciding to test, I researched into both, including comparisons and both seemed to offer the same leve...
5 months ago